TY - BOOK ID - 137431110 TI - Irrational and overrated PY - 2014 SN - 3954895757 9783954895755 9783954890750 PB - Hamburg, Germany DB - UniCat KW - Self-confidence KW - Self-esteem in adolescence UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137431110 AB - This book examines the relationship between education and excessive confidence in situations of uncertainty. For this purpose, a questionnaire with 10 pseudo general knowledge questions was designed whereby their degree of difficulty exceeds the knowledge of an average student by far. It was investigated whether subjects (N = 535) would acknowledge this condition and its associated nescience. If that is the case, they will answer the 10 questions within an extremely wide confidence interval in order to meet the predefined 90% accuracy requirement. The focus of investigation was in Southern Ger ER -